Trying to Bridge phpBB 2.0.19 and 1.4.4

[daveshaw]

I get the following error even after I CHMOD the file to either 755 or 777

You don't have permission to access /coppermine/bridgemgr.php on this server.



Coppermine install: http://www.majordickwinters.com/coppermine/
Forum install: http://www.majordickwinters.com/phpBB2/
Coppermine version: cpg1.4.4
Forum version: phpBB 2.0.19
Test user account: test / test

BridgeManager settings:
Forum URL:  ?
Relative path to your BBS's config file:  ../phpBB2/
Use post-based groups?: ??/

And now no one not even me can log into the forum, so my forum is down, but my login still works for coppermine

I am new to this so please bear with me.

TANKS in adcance

[Joachim Müller]

your forum can't be down, because bridging doesn't affect your forum at all.

[daveshaw]

Oh yes it can, and did.  It destroyed my database, two of us had to manually restore the database cause it destroyed the user section the the MySQL database.


The other person that helped with this was/is the System Administrator from my web hosting service, they are great.

[daveshaw]

I am still reinstalling items to get back to where the Bridge feature of Coppermine 1.4.4 destroyed my database.

I will be installed Coppermine standalone back, but not sure if I will be trying the Bridge Feature again.

[Joachim Müller]

Oh yes it can, and did.  It destroyed my database, two of us had to manually restore the database cause it destroyed the user section the the MySQL database.

That's impossible, you must have done something wrong. As I suggested above: bridging doesn't even touch the forum. There are no queries run against the forum's database tables, and no files modified in the forum folder. How's that suppossed to hurt the forum then?
If you think it did, then tell us please what exactly you did when attempting to bridge and what actually got broken that needed manual fixing.